A recent story about automatic license plate readers (ALPR) revealed that police departments in numerous states share your license plate data without a warrant.

Three days ago an article in the Orange Leader, revealed how police in Texas share motorists’ ALPR data with law enforcement in other states.

Law enforcement agencies equipped with license-plate readers share collected data, even across state lines in pursuit of drug traffickers, individuals with outstanding warrants, stolen vehicles, or other activities of interest.

What does law enforcement mean by “other activities of interest”?

Two years ago, I revealed that “other activities of interest” is just a euphemism for police hotlists.

If you think the ALPR nightmare story stops there, you would be wrong.

For years now, law enforcement has also been using ALPRs in shopping malls and parking lots to spy on innocent Americans. They are even thinking of putting ALPRs in car washes. (Click here to find out more.)

In three short years, DHS went from cancelling plans to create a national license plate tracking system with the DEA, to using the US Border Patrol to do what it could not. (Click here to read about the DEA’s highway ALPRs.)

Four days ago, an article in The Verge revealed that DHS used the US Border Patrol to accomplish its goal of national license plate tracking system.

ICE agents would be able to query that database in two ways. A historical search would turn up every place a given license plate has been spotted in the last five years, a detailed record of the target’s movements. That data could be used to find a given subject’s residence or even identify associates if a given car is regularly spotted in a specific parking lot.

As you can see, police state Amerika is alive and well and is doing everything in its power to destroy our Bill of Rights in the name of public safety.